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Molson Coors strike: management brings in non-union salaried employees and temporary higher-waged employees as scabs. Picketers block company trucks, backing up traffic, but motorists support union.
Big Beer Strikewatch 2024 ain’t over yet, folks. Sure, Anheuser-Busch InBev struck a deal in the waning days of February to avert a strike on its American breweries by 5,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. But even as ABI sidestepped a high-profile street fight with its resurg...
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End Slavery in Minnesota Bill Advocates for Fair Wages in Prisons
Minneapolis, MN — On February 25, 2025, the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee hosted a panel discussion on Ending Slavery in Minnesota led by Marcia Howard, President of the Federation of Teachers Local 59 and ex-prison labor workers. According to panelists, an incarcerated worker ...
Employer lobby successfully pushes Irish Cabinet to backtrack on living wage, paid sick leave, and other support for low-paid, sick, young, migrant, and retired employees
At their monthly meeting today (Wednesday), the Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions were unanimous in roundly condemning the Cabinet for approving “an anti-worker" Action Plan on Competitiveness”.
Unite leader says ‘partial deal on pay protection for a few’ was overwhelmingly rejected in vote, as rubbish piles up
"When radical things happen, only fools do not become more radical."
> When radical things happen, only fools do not become more radical. History can explain the present, but getting locked into a dynamic that no longer works is how things go extinct. The strike is our power. Get ready, willing, and able to use that power. The greatest tragedy would be seeing unions ...
Hong Kong: airline gives CEO 35% raise while lower level employees still dealing with pay cuts and other detrimental changes since pandemic
A Hong Kong pilot union has expressed “serious concern” over Cathay Pacific executives’ pay hikes as the flagship carrier still “struggles with severe staff shortages, rising ticket pri…
Philippines: Labor rights group calls for abolition of National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, said to label labor groups as insurrectionists and subjecting them to violence
According to EILER, three red-tagging incidents were documented between December 2024 and February 2025 in District 4
University of Oregon: 94.5% students authorize a strike for raise and two paychecks per month. University violated state law issuing paychecks more than 35 days apart.
The unit of about 4,000 undergraduate student workers voted to unionize in October 2023 and has spent 10 months negotiating a first contract.
UK sanitation worker strike: union pickets block scab pickups. National government ready to step in against union.
Britain’s second-largest city has declared a “major incident” after a sanitation worker strike left over 17,000 tons of uncollected garbage on the curbside.
Belgian general strike against austerity: "working people refuse to be scapegoated for a budget crisis created by political choices that prioritise profit over people"
Thousands of Belgian workers on 31 March 2025 staged a nationwide general strike, protesting the harsh austerity measures imposed by the Arizona coalition go…
